Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) slammed Harvard University in a letter on Thursday for failing to take action against anti-Semitism and siding with “those who hate Jewish students.”
“This institution has failed time and time again to take steps to properly address this scourge and hold perpetrators accountable,” Stefanik, who is a Harvard alumna, wrote in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/04.11.24-Letter-to-Harvard435287.pdf">letter</a> to its interim president. “Your actions have continued to disgrace this institution and threaten the safety of the students you claim to serve.”
“At a time when support and applications for Harvard have fallen, university leadership has continuously chosen to side with those who hate Jewish students and faculty and failed to keep them safe,” Stefanik added.
Stefanik’s letter cited the school&#8217;s failure to take immediate action after an October 18 “die-in” at Harvard Business School, during which student activists displayed a sign with the genocidal anti-Israel slogan “from the river to the sea” and assaulted a student filming.
“During this event, an Israeli Harvard Business School student recorded the act and was quickly surrounded by a mob of anti-Israel protestors who assaulted and harassed him,” Stefanik wrote. “These assailants blocked his path, repeatedly grabbed him, and shouted &#8216;Shame! Shame! Shame!&#8217; at him.&#8221;
Following the incident, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce — of which Stefanik is a member — obtained <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/20240322-March-Letter-to-Katya-Jestin_Redacted31865627.pdf">documents</a> showing that the law firm Harvard hired to conduct an investigation shared video evidence of the incident with the victim’s lawyers in January.
Despite the video evidence, one of the accused assailants is scheduled to graduate in May 2024, the same month of a now-postponed court date.
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“Due to this postponement, the assailant will gain the lifelong distinction of being an alumnus of Harvard despite having committed a well-documented antisemitic hate crime against a fellow student,” Stefanik wrote. “Justice for this incident should have been served quickly, and the delay of justice that specifically allows an antisemitic student to graduate is an affront to accountability and demonstrates the cultural rot of Harvard University&#8217;s leadership that has allowed antisemitism to continue.”
In a statement provided after publication of this article, a Harvard spokesman said the student is not set to graduate in the spring, but declined to give a detailed explanation.
Stefanik went on to reference her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elise-stefanik-harvard-president-claudine-gays-resignation-was-long-overdue">December interaction</a> with former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who said it depends on the context if calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes harassment.
“In front of Congress, when disgraced former Harvard Presdient Claudine Gay failed to denounce antisemitism and calls for genocide, she also claimed ‘disciplinary process are underway’ against perpetrators of antisemitism,” Stefanik’s letter states. “This has proven to be false, with Harvard producing no evidence of punishment against those who have committed crimes and violated Harvard’s code of conduct.”
The congresswoman also cited an incident first reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-employee-harasses-jewish-student-suing-school-for-anti-semitism-asks-to-debate-9-11-conspiracies">The Daily Wire</a> concerning Harvard employee Gustavo Espada challenging a Jewish student — who is suing the university over antisemitism — to a debate about whether Israel is responsible for 9/11.
“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don’t miss it!” the financial systems coordinator for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations wrote. “If you don’t show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you!”
After The Daily Wire asked Gustavo for comment, he posted a video to TikTok holding a toy machete claiming he is ready to fight. “I’m not going to go into details, but this is a good plan. So if you follow us, this is what’s happening,” he says in Spanish before photos of various high-profile Jews and a screenshot of a tweet by the Jewish student.
“This recent case of Harvard protecting those who hate Jews is disgusting,” the New York congresswoman continued. “As an alumna of Harvard University, allowing this student to gain the title of Harvard graduate disgraces all who have come before him and erodes the distinction of a once sought after degree.”
The Daily Wire has extensively covered rising anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents at Harvard, including a student push to pass <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-harvard-students-set-to-skirt-bylaws-to-hold-anti-israel-referendum-vote">divestment resolutions</a>, a contractor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters">ripping down</a> hostage posters, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-un-official-doubles-down-at-harvard-says-israel-has-no-right-to-self-defense">events with speakers</a> who justified the October 7 massacre.
This piece was updated with a statement from Harvard.

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Elise Stefanik Says Harvard Siding With ‘Those Who Hate Jewish Students’ In Scathing Letter

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Two Harvard Law students resigned from their student government positions after a resolution to divest from Israel was approved through an unconventional secret ballot vote, hiding the record of who supported the extreme measure.
The resolution, which calls on the Harvard Management Company to divest from Israel over the “genocide of Palestinians” and the “ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine,&#8221; violated the student government’s constitution, according to the two students, Cameron Adkins and Regina De Nigris, who resigned from the government shortly after it passed.
“We voiced our disagreement to the Student Government at every opportunity,” they wrote in their resignation letter. “Our concerns, however, were pushed aside. In light of this disagreement, we believe that our continued membership in the Harvard Law School Student Government would compromise our principles and values.”
The two students cite procedural issues with how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-students-amend-bylaws-to-enact-secret-ballot-ahead-of-vote-to-boycott-israel">resolution vote</a> was undertaken through an anonymous Google form and accuse their former fellow representatives of pushing the change through during an emergency meeting without letting students express their opinions. 
“The resolution has been pushed through at the last possible minute to avoid running up against the end of this Student Government’s term, and, perhaps, to insulate Student Government from receiving contrary input,” they wrote. “Given the importance of the issue, rushing this process is particularly inappropriate and unacceptable.”
According to the <a href="https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/">student government website</a>, its goal is to “make sure that HLS is more fun and inclusive than we found it.”
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The student government members will be replaced by incoming recently-elected representatives next week.
Student body co-president Swap Agrawal said the secret vote was to “address concerns regarding doxxing and harassment.” 
The resolution passed with 12 in favor, 3 opposed, and 3 abstaining. The only two known votes are from De Nigris and Adkins, who were two of the three votes against the resolution. 
Student government <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240327020058/https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/members/">members</a> Robert Kim, Marissa Thomas, Tony Maquiling, Pat Healy, Aliye Korucu, Mackenzie Saunders, Tori Borlase, Connor Morgan, Felicia Caten-Raines, Dee Um, Hannah Chi, Katelyn Turner, Amanda Harrison, Kayla Hollingsworth, Vincent Okonkwo, Ojadamola Takuro, and Deyaa Alrwishdi did not respond to inquiries on their votes.
The Harvard Jewish Law Students Association said the resolution will “divide and alienate” in a statement <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C5GiP2XuRvQ/">posted to their Instagram account</a>.
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“In total darkness, they set out to target the state of Israel without even notifying the leadership of Jewish or Israeli communities on campus,” the group wrote. “Demonizing Israel displays a callous disregard for the identities of so many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard- by passing this resolution, student government asks the campus and the world to assume that those who have any connection to Israel are villainous.&#8221;
&#8220;This resolution is beyond just procedurally and substantively offensive: it is antisemitic,” the Jewish student group said.
The resolution accuses Israel of maiming, killing, and starving Palestinians in a “genocidal campaign” and calls upon the Harvard Management Company to “divest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians.”
Following the announcement of its passage, anti-Israel student groups held a last-minute victory celebration with cake and speeches in the student lounge on campus, a violation of Harvard policy.
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“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord because war is profitable,” a student said during one of the speeches posted to Instagram. “These so-called leaders of this institution would be best served to listen to what we have to say because one day, when we win, and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back. They will be begging us to rewrite history.”
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Anti-Israel Harvard Law students celebrated with cake after the student gov voted to divest from Israel with a secret ballot.
“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord…one day when we win and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back.” <a href="https://t.co/bLoOlRZNOc">pic.twitter.com/bLoOlRZNOc</a>
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In the middle of the celebration, another emergency meeting was called over the procedural concerns, and another vote was taken to determine if procedure was followed after intense debate. Student Maya Husseini said, &#8220;Brats are upset they didn&#8217;t get their way&#8221; after Jewish students raised concerns, according to Stop Antisemitism. Another anonymous vote was taken, and the students upheld the resolution.
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“I do not believe that it is the role of a student government to make blanket or unilateral statements on contentious issues that impact every student differently,” Adkins, who was able to resume his position for the second vote before his resignation went into effect, said. “Because the student government is not fully representative of our diverse student body, it is our job to remain neutral, offer support to all students, and avoid alienating or endorsing any particular viewpoints on campus.”
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

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Harvard Law Students Resign From Student Govt Over Secret Ballot Anti-Israel Vote

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A man wearing a kippah was attacked late last week in France after leaving a synagogue in Paris, French officials said in a statement over the weekend.
The attacker, who authorities are trying to locate, reportedly shouted &#8220;dirty Jew&#8221; during the attack on the 62-year-old man. The victim reportedly lost consciousness after being struck.
&#8220;According to initial information, a new anti-Semitic attack took place in Paris yesterday evening,&#8221; said Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. &#8220;Everything is being done to find the author of this unspeakable act. Furthermore, on my instructions, since yesterday the prefects have reinforced surveillance of places frequented by our Jewish compatriots who must not be victims of the tragedies taking place in the Middle East.&#8221;
Darmanin ordered that there be a visible increase of law enforcement near areas where Jews are located, specifically focusing on schools and synagogues.
There has been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks worldwide in the days leading up to Ramadan, including a Jewish dentist who was murdered late last weekend in San Diego by an Islamic man and a teenager who pledged allegiance to ISIS and stabbed a Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend.
The significant uptick in global anti-Semitic incidents and terror attacks began with Hamas&#8217; unprecedented terrorist attack on October 7.
As Israel prepares to take Hamas&#8217; last stronghold inside Gaza, the city of Rafah, Israel&#8217;s tensions with Hezbollah on its northern border with Lebanon have increased. Iran, which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah, reportedly gave Hezbollah the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-gives-hezbollah-green-light-to-launch-full-scale-attack-on-israel-report">green light</a> last week to launch a full-scale attack against Israel if Israel takes Rafah.
Iran reportedly gave the order because it believes that once Israel is done eliminating terrorists inside Rafah, it will then attack Hezbollah’s positions in southern Lebanon.
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“[Hezbollah Secretary-General] Hassan Nasrallah told [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Esmail] Qaani that the attack is likely to be very imminent, most likely in the month of Ramadan, or with Israel’s invasion of the city of Rafah,” an IRGC source told Arabic Post. “Nasrallah said that he is completely certain of [Israel’s] intention to launch a large-scale attack on Lebanon, and he asked Qaani to give him complete freedom in how he intends to attack.”

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‘Dirty Jew’: Jewish Man Beaten In ‘Anti-Semitic Attack’ Outside Paris Synagogue

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Police in Zurich, Switzerland, have increased security at Jewish sites following an attempted murder that took place over the weekend.
A 15-year-old, who was not named, allegedly stabbed a 50-year-old Jewish man in the city on Saturday night.
Police said that while they had not reached any final conclusions about the attack, they believed that it was very likely an anti-Semitic hate crime.
The Swiss Organization of Jewish Communities said it was “deeply shocked that a community member fell victim to such an attack.”
“Physical attacks on Jewish people in Switzerland are very rare,” it said. “The Jewish community has been spared from such life-threatening attacks for the past two decades. However, there has been a significant increase in such physical attacks since Oct. 7.”
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A stabbing attack in Zurich, Switzerland, an Orthodox Jew was stabbed and seriously injured by a Muslim who shouted death to the Jews. The terrorist was arrested by the police. <a href="https://t.co/cTBM8N1H9O">pic.twitter.com/cTBM8N1H9O</a>
&mdash; Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) <a href="https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1764056764276740533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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City Councilor Jehuda Spielman, who reportedly knows the victim, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-789907">told</a> The Jerusalem Post that bystanders who rushed in to stop the attack “without a doubt &#8230; saved his life.”
“We were really lucky that people fought back,” he said.
Spielman said that the suspect shouted anti-Semitic slogans during the altercation. After he was pinned down, the suspect reportedly made references to what the publication referred to as &#8220;jihadist concepts, such as acting on behalf of &#8216;Al-Aqsa.'&#8221; The suspect allegedly yelled &#8220;death to the Jews.&#8221;
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Al-Aqsa in this context would be a reference to the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization&#8217;s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, which they named Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. The Islamic terrorists murdered 1,200 people, wounded 5,300+, kidnapped hundreds, and unleashed a violent campaign of rape against girls and women.
The Middle East Media Research Institute&#8217;s (MEMRI) Jihad &amp; Terrorism Threat Monitor, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, <a href="https://archive.is/dpf37#selection-479.4-492.1">reported</a> that a video that was uploaded online showed the teenager swearing allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) and calling on Muslims to target Christians and Jews around the world.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-mohammed-abdulkareem-for-allegedly-murdering-jewish-dentist">Police Arrest Mohammed Abdulkareem For Allegedly Murdering Jewish Dentist</a>

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Teenager Allegedly Swore Allegiance To ISIS Before Stabbing Jewish Man: Report

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At a London theater that used to be a synagogue, an Irish comic reportedly turned on a Jewish member of the audience, repeatedly yelled, “Get the f*** out of here,” and prompted the audience to repeat the chant “Free Palestine.”
Liahav Eitan, an Israeli Jew who moved to London five years ago, attended a show by Paul Currie on Saturday night at the Soho Theatre as a last-minute time filler before going to a dinner celebration of his 33rd birthday. Near the end of the show, Currie unfurled a flag of Ukraine and a flag representing Palestinians, exhorting the crowd to make a standing ovation. When Eitan and his friend remained seated, Eitan said Currie “lingered” on them for roughly five to ten seconds until Eitan said, “Thank you for that Palestine flag.”
Eitan told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13076461/Met-Police-launch-investigation-Soho-Theatre-shocking-incident-Jewish-audience-member-hounded-comedian-Paul-Currie-comic-doubles-act-sharing-PRAISE-incendiary-routine-online.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> that Currie — who had attended a pro-Palestine rally hours before — asked Eitan if he was being sarcastic, then said something like “Okay, well, you&#8217;re welcome. You&#8217;re welcome for the Palestine flag. It was part of the show,” then added, “Did you enjoy the show?” When Eitan answered “Yes,” Eitan stated, Currie started screaming, “I&#8217;m from Belfast. I know everything about ceasefires. Ceasefire now, get the f*** out of my theatre. Get out, get the f*** out of my show, motherf***ers.”
“The only way out was through the stage,” Eitan recalled. “We had to actually get on the stage quite close to him — and I was quite afraid that he&#8217;d throw a punch because he was still cursing and shouting. He got out his Palestine flag again and shouted ‘motherf***er you&#8217;ll have to watch it again on your way out.’”
Another Jewish member of the audience later told <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jewish-man-tells-cops-comic-paul-currie-threw-an-israeli-out-of-his-comedy-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Beast</a> that “quite a few” audience members stood and shouted, “Free Palestine! Free Palestine! Get the f*** out of here.’” He said that Eitan remained calm, adding, “I think he was incredibly brave because in a room full of 200 people, to be able to say ‘I enjoyed the show until you took out the flag’ I thought was incredibly brave.” He called the experience “quite frightening because there were a lot of people sort of screaming at that time.”
A Met Police spokesman told The Daily Mail, “We are aware of the incident that took place at the Soho Theatre on Saturday evening. We understand why it was upsetting for those involved and we note the venue has issued a statement confirming they are looking into what took place. A report was submitted to police on Monday and inquiries are ongoing.”
The Soho Theatre issued the following statement:
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We are sorry and saddened by an incident that took place at our venue at the end of a performance of Paul Currie: Shtoom on Saturday 10 of February which has caused upset and hurt to members of audience attending and others. We take this very seriously and are looking into the detail of what happened as thoroughly, as sensitively, and as quickly as we can. It is important to us that Soho Theatre is welcoming and inclusive place for all.
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Other Jews in the audience left the theater, later <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/12/soho-theatre-apologises-after-comedian-abused-jewish-audience-member" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> Campaign Against Antisemitism, “It felt like we were welcome in the theatre as long as our identities [as] Jews weren’t known, and the minute our identities were known, we felt threatened.”
Campaign Against Antisemitism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/12/soho-theatre-apologises-after-comedian-abused-jewish-audience-member" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated,</a> “What the Jewish audience members have recounted is atrocious, and we are working with them and our lawyers to ensure that those who instigated and enabled it are held to account. These allegations are of deeply disturbing discriminatory abuse against Jews. Comedians are rightly given broad latitude, but hounding Jews out of theatres is reminiscent of humanity&#8217;s darkest days, and must have no place in central London in 2024.”
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Picture this: a supposed comedy night at the Soho Theatre, London, turns into a shocking display of raw antisemitism. The chief architect of this debacle? Comedian Paul Currie. But let&#39;s be clear, this was no laughing matter. It was a grotesque exhibition of prejudice, dressed up… <a href="https://t.co/pHubyOdEgf">pic.twitter.com/pHubyOdEgf</a>
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‘Get The F*** Out Of Here’: Comedian Turns On Jew In London Theater, Audience Reportedly Joins In

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It would be easier for everyone involved if progressive social activists in higher education would just come out and be honest that they hate Jews and would rather see us killed off once and for all.
News broke the night of February 4 that the public City University of New York (CUNY) planned to host a <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanHaroun1/status/1754300986045124959/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar</a> later this month that was originally titled “Globalize the Intifada: Mapping Struggles for Palestine between the Streets and our Classrooms.” For the sake of optics, the <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanHaroun1/status/1754300986045124959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incendiary prefix</a> appeared to have been dropped before CUNY outright canceled the event.
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🚨🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Breaking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Breaking</a> &#8211; UPDATE 2: The title of this <a href="https://twitter.com/CUNY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CUNY</a> seminar, scheduled for Feb 16, has now been changed with mention of “Globalize the Intifada” REMOVED. It is part of a broader course on: “Engagement, Equity &amp; Antiracism” <a href="https://t.co/gBQnXZbMFR">pic.twitter.com/gBQnXZbMFR</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Harounoff (@JonathanHaroun1) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanHaroun1/status/1754300986045124959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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CUNY was right to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/update-cuny-cancels-globalize-the-intifada-panel-at-anti-racism-conference-not-a-podium-for-protest/24795">cancel</a> the event because no matter the language used, the seminar’s original “Global Intifada” title betrays the murderous spirit lurking beneath the event’s surface.
Intifada refers to the organized and indiscriminate killing of Jewish civilians through terrorism. Palestinian terrorists launched the <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/intifada-begins-on-gaza-strip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Intifada</a> in 1987 and the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381378.stm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Intifada</a> in 2000. Both used bombings to kill innocent Jewish civilians.
Murder has no place in higher education. Like Mike Myers’ “Coffee Talk” bit on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58grYzCcfHI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SNL</a>, I can only say that Intifada is neither educational nor a higher ideal. The would-be panelists and attendees do not express sophistication, intellectualism, or empathy when they invoke murder. Instead, they only appeal to the worst elements of human emotions and hatred.
The CUNY seminar operates in an axis of Jew-hatred holding together anti-Semitic social justice crusades both on and off college campuses. The event description accordingly states that it will “bring together organizers at Lehman College and the Bronx, and across CUNY and New York City, to highlight how students, workers, and our communities can act in solidarity to achieve justice in Palestine.” For social justice progressives, killing isn’t murder when it’s solidarity. 
Make no mistake. These people want Intifada everywhere. But they refuse to sacrifice their respectability and thus cloak their complicity with murder in the deceptively polite aura of scholarly discussions.
As a country, we cannot expect to defeat Jew-hatred as long as a critical mass of the public and academia buys into this deception and duplicity. Last fall, America got a glimpse into the true nature of the far-Left’s anti-Semitism from the other side of the country. 
On Oct. 10, University of California, Davis, Professor <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/update-uc-davis-prof-still-employed-after-threatening-jewish-journalists-with-death-home-invasion-kidnapping/24222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemma Decristo</a> appeared to tweet murder and kidnapping threats against Jewish journalists, implying like-minded progressive academics and activists would carry out the acts: “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda &amp; misinformation &#8230; they have houses w addresses, kids in school &#8230; they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more”
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/ucdavis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ucdavis</a>, do you think it’s appropriate that one of your faculty advisors, @jemmaisOKeh, is publicly threatening to murder Jews at their homes and their children at their schools? <a href="https://t.co/xAx97LHYbr">pic.twitter.com/xAx97LHYbr</a>
&mdash; Jason Bedrick 🇮🇱 (@JasonBedrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonBedrick/status/1715036789730431299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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If you want to know what political desires motivate the CUNY seminar, imagine if Decristo’s threats actually happened. Mob massacres that eliminate Jews are the end-point of Intifadas and Jewish students are already the target of physical attacks on campus.
Last semester, university officials did not lift a finger to stop Jews from being <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/4-times-jewish-students-were-attacked-on-campuses-in-2023/24482" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> at Harvard University, Cooper Union, Tulane University, and Columbia University.
That’s why I filed 21 Title VI complaints against American universities – these colleges have failed in their duty to respond to campus antisemitism and Jew hatred. These events and rhetoric are neither benign nor examples of political speech that deserve protection. They are calls for violence.
So far, these complaints have resulted in seven opened investigations: Brown University, Temple University, Arizona State University, Northwestern University, Binghamton University, University of Wisconsin, and Indiana University Bloomington.
I feel encouraged by these investigations, but they will not stop Jew-hatred in this country as long as the public remains gullible to higher education’s lies and distortions. It is possible to rail against Israeli foreign policy without invoking murder &#8211; secular liberals in Tel Aviv do it all the time &#8211; but progressive academics and activists hardly seem interested in doing so. They relish in genocidal designs. 
The pro-Hamas invocation <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/stanford-refuses-to-condemn-pro-hamas-banners-instead-vows-to-help-students-find-proper-place-to-hang-them/24123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“by any means necessary”</a> that sprung up last fall from professors and students persists four months after October 7 as the slogan “<a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1753902546609938880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You Don’t Get to Choose How We Resist</a>.” On campus and off, today and last fall, these chants endorse murder and rape against civilians. They envisage the genocidal promise of “From the River to the Sea.”
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These are the same tactics that Russian tsars used in the 1800s to execute their pogroms that killed hundreds of thousands of Jews. In a 2023 graduation speech, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/bill-proposes-funding-cuts-after-anti-semitic-cuny-law-graduation-speech/23387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CUNY Law student Fatima Mohammed</a> indulged in anti-Semitic tropes that maliciously link Jews to murder and global finance. It was this combination of stereotypes that fueled the pogroms and Holocaust.
No wonder Jewish students feel unwelcome in higher education. Every time they step on campus, they teleport back to a time and place when it was permissible – and popular – to persecute and kill Jews.
Jews are not safe in higher education, but history shows us that we are safer when we fully understand the threats against us. The Holocaust <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/nazi-germany-and-anti-jewish-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developed</a> so gradually over the 1930s and early 1940s in Germany and Austria, that many Jewish contemporaries remained complacently in denial about the threat until it was too late.
That’s why we are better off if anti-Semites who indulge in murderous rhetoric and fantasies would just admit their deepest desires.
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Zachary Marschall is the editor-in-chief of the Leadership Institute’s <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> and an adjunct assistant professor at the <a href="https://finearts.uky.edu/arts-administration/faculty-staff/zachary-marschall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Kentucky</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
I love the United States and want it to be strong and prosperous. I am embarrassed by the fact that it took a catastrophe in Israel to wake me up to the realization that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American universities</a> have become epicenters of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wokeness</a>” and green shoots of socialism that are gradually destroying our awesome country.
I know what you may be thinking: Wokeness is the enemy? Really? Next, he’ll be picking on Winnie-the-Pooh.
I don’t blame you.
I looked up <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/wokeness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the definition </a>of wokeness: “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).” Sounds fair and innocent enough, right? Marvel should create a superhero: Wokeman — “fixing injustice 24/7, always stays woke.”
I am not a political science scholar, but I have an inkling of how wokeness started. It was an aftershock of the equal rights movements that tried to fix the side effects of our society’s ugly past and bring equality to everyone. It came from a good, kind place in people’s hearts. However, I am a student of economics and have learned that ideas should not be judged solely on their intent but also on their outcomes. We are often preoccupied with the intent and ignore second order effects, the unintended consequences that often make things a lot worse.
This is exactly what has happened to wokeness.
At some point, while we got up to get the popcorn, the wokeness movie went from being a Marvel superhero flick to an Orwellian dystopian Animal Farm nightmare: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
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Although the idea of elevating minorities may sound great on the surface, the U.S. took a wrong turn and started turning into a country where the majority is often penalized for not being a minority. 
Which brings me to the college HQ of wokeness — DEI. I am embarrassed to admit I did not know <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI</a> existed before October 7. If you think these three letters stand for some cool government agency, no, they are way cooler than that. They stand for “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
How can anyone be against these three awesome words?
To my great surprise, DEI has turned into anti-Semitism on college campuses. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman explains DEI’s role very well in <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this essay</a>:
“Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology … one is either an anti-racist or a racist.”
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In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.
I first became concerned about <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a> when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military…
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Ackman, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> University grad and major donor, goes on to say: “There is no such thing as being ‘not racist.’ Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy … that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist. As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology.” 
As a result, on some campuses the DEI objective became what Tabia Lee, a former equity director at De Anza College in California, to “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_aME7tUuE&amp;t=9s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">de-center whiteness</a>,” and thus it allowed anti-Semitism to spread. If you fall under DEI “protection,” you become part of a superclass that plays by its own rules. Since Jews are not classified as a minority, they have now been put into the category of oppressors.
Yet, Jews are indeed a minority — there are only <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/global-jewish-population-hits-15-7-million-ahead-of-new-year-46-of-them-in-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15.7 million</a> of us in the world! That’s right, in the whole world. During World War II, an estimated <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/estimated-number-of-jews-killed-in-the-final-solution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six million</a> Jews perished in the Holocaust – an event whose occurrence is now up for dispute not just in Iran but among the TikTok-educated younger generation here at home. (According to an Economist survey, <a href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_tT4jyzG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20% of 18-to-29-year-olds</a> think the Holocaust is a myth.)
Growing up as a Jew — an underclass in the Soviet Union — I never wanted special treatment for being a minority. I just wanted society to be blind to the line in my passport that said “Jewish.” I don’t want my kids to be added to the DEI “superclass.”
So, if you are attending an American college and are not classified as an oppressed minority under the protection of the woke, you will be treated by a different set of rules. As we have learned from the presidents of Ivy League schools, cries for your genocidal extermination will require “context” and the actual death of Jewish students before college administrators will act — all while you can be expelled from a university for using the wrong pronoun.
A lot of this starts in colleges, but it does not and will not stop at colleges. Colleges are the factories of our future. They are the production lines of future workers and thinkers.
People cannot control their gender, the color of their skin, their ethnicity, or their sexual preference — this sort of discrimination was our sin of the past. People should not be punished for these traits; others should not be favored for them (this is the reverse punishment of others) — the current sin of woke.
I am going to say what everyone knows but doesn’t want to admit — there are differences between groups of people. Blacks <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NBA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dominate</a> the NBA — they account for 73% of all players. Whites are only 17%. (Something similar but less extreme is happening in the <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1167935/racial-diversity-nfl-players/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a>.) Meanwhile, Asians account for only 0.4% of NBA players — they are clearly underrepresented. Yet we find the idea of creating an “equality” NBA by hiring 5’8” Asians so they can get crushed by 6’10” black athletes laughable.
However, in the effort to create “equality” in colleges — until the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in 2023 — we were fine with reverse discrimination against Asian students to limit their admission to elite colleges, which, just like the NBA and NFL, were supposed to be merit-based. But Asians are neither a superclass nor a protected group; therefore, we didn’t care.
When we hire people based solely on their identity (not on their merit), we do not elevate them but rather bring them down. On some level, they know that they got the job based not on personal strengths but on their superficial identity.
This creates a victim and victimizer mentality. It is anti-evolutionary: People possessed by the victim mentality don’t progress or evolve; they see obstacles in their lives as someone else’s fault and thus not their responsibility to overcome. As the eminent English rabbi Jonathan Sacks <a href="https://www.rabbisacks.org/videos/rabbi-sacks-on-victim-mentality-jinsider/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, if you are possessed by a victim mentality “you hand over your life to somebody else.”
Life is full of obstacles. History is often unfair, and not just to the DEI superclass. It has not been kind to Jews for centuries. Jews choose to not be victims but to be agents of change. This attitude is deeply ingrained in Jewish culture. Obstacles only make us stronger. If you have the attitude that obstacles are someone’s else fault, you’ll never try to grow beyond them. As Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor, said: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
America — the country of meritocracy — is turning into a country where your identity determines how you will be treated along the road of life. A person, be it a Supreme Court justice, a college administrator, or an employee at the local DMV, should get a job not because of their identity but because of their accomplishments and their character.
As a society, we must accept a hard truth: By acting solely based on our hearts and artificially trying to make things better for this or that group of people, we end up not improving things for them but instead creating different injustices. Everyone should be treated equally. Some people should not be more important (protected) than others. And yes, all lives matter, and that statement should not require context. Finally, we should stop living in fear of being canceled for saying the above.
I was shocked to learn that DEI is already nesting in large corporations and our government. Imagine if air traffic controllers, people who have the lives of hundreds of others in their hands, were selected based not on their skills but on their DEI status. Well, you don’t have to imagine this very hard — it’s already <a href="https://www.tampafp.com/biden-faa-pushing-diversity-hiring-as-air-traffic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happening</a>. Think about that the next time you board a plane.
It is not hard to visualize the consequences of someone hired solely based on their identity (not on their skill) colliding planes in the air and killing hundreds. If this woke cancer continues to spread through our economy, it will suck meritocracy out of it and weaken, or even worse, crash the economy. Unlike a plane crash, you won’t see it unfold on the news; it will happen slowly, one DEI hire at a time. 
I wonder how Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-is-ted-scared-of-color-blindness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would be received</a> today on American campuses, especially when he said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.”
Orchestras have a perfect model for how to hire performers. During auditions, the jury sits in the audience. Each performer has a number assigned to them. They play behind a curtain; the jury cannot see them.
We should copy that model. When I came to the United States in 1991, I was told that in this country we treat all people according to their merits and values, by what they bring to society. I miss that US.
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Author&#8217;s note: While this topic may have political overtones, I do not belong to a political party. You may decide to pigeonhole me as a member of a political tribe. Please don’t. I am registered as an independent and have voted for candidates belonging to three different parties in the last six presidential elections.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-semitism-wokeness-and-why-a-strong-america-is-essential-to-israels-survival-part-1-a-small-country-with-a-big-story">READ: Anti-Semitism, Wokeness, And Why A Strong America Is Essential To Israel’s Survival, Part 1: A Small Country With A Big Story</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-semitism-wokeness-and-why-a-strong-america-is-essential-to-israels-survival-part-3-the-socialism-of-grades">READ: Anti-Semitism, Wokeness, And Why A Strong America Is Essential To Israel’s Survival, Part 3: The Socialism Of Grades</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-semitism-wokeness-and-why-a-strong-america-is-essential-to-israels-survival-part-4-one-way-to-save-america-and-israel">READ: Anti-Semitism, Wokeness, And Why A Strong America Is Essential To Israel’s Survival, Part 4: One Way To Save America And Israel</a>
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I flew to Kraków, Poland, on Saturday night and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1889-at-auschwitz-with-elon-musk-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited Auschwitz</a> with Elon Musk on Monday.
Auschwitz is an insane experience. For those who have seen images of the Holocaust, seeing the actual structures where mass death was brought upon the Jewish people, as well as Roma homosexuals and Russian soldiers, is an astonishing demonstration of the darkness that is present and possible inside the human soul.
For those who have not visited, it is worth the visit because I think that we tend to live very easy lives — thank God, in the West and in the modern era — and we tend to look around us and see people who are generally good, people who generally believe in non-evil things.
Then you go to a place like Auschwitz and realize it actually is not all that unthinkable for the unthinkable to happen.
I had the privilege when I was younger of helping to write the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor who&#8217;d actually gone through Auschwitz-Birkenau. And the stories obviously are horrifying. 
I think there are many important points to be gained from walking through Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first is to realize that people can be made to believe nearly anything. And this holds true on the side of both the evil people and the people who are victimized by those who are evil.
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One of the things you see when you walk through Auschwitz itself, the actual complex, is a room that&#8217;s just filled with suitcases. Every person who brought a suitcase to Auschwitz thought they were going to end up unpacking that suitcase step by step. European Jewry thought that whatever was next couldn&#8217;t be what it turned out to be, all the way until the final step into the gas chambers. So when we criticize people for not having fought back, at what point were they supposed to believe the unthinkable was now thinkable? Because the unthinkable is unthinkable until precisely the moment that it becomes real. 
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There is very little limit to the evil that can be created in the human heart. That evil can only be masked by ideology. Ideology absolutely matters. It absolutely matters.
To truly understand what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau, you have to understand German and European history. You have to understand European anti-Semitism. The first and most fundamental thing to understand about anti-Semitism in the modern era is that it is a conspiracy theory about power. When you read the writings of Hitler and those who preceded Hitler by 50, 60, and 70 years — anti-Semitic writings — what you see is that there&#8217;s a conspiracy theory about Jews.
These conspiracy theories assert the powerful in every industry are Jewish, that they are part of an evil conspiracy, and that the only reason they gain power is through some sort of perverse machination, and they, therefore, must be extricated; they must be destroyed. The theory of power suggested they were the exploiters, they had rigged the system on their own behalf, and, therefore, they had to be destroyed.
And that ideology, a self-justifying ideology whereby the people you&#8217;re about to kill are actually the true victimizers, breeds the victimization of Jews and is very much alive and well and with us today.
When we see places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, we think the extent of the horror is so unthinkable and so unimaginable that we tend to cut it off from the rest of human relations. We tend to think, “This is an outlier. It&#8217;s just this crazy statistical outlier.” When, in reality, it is just the culmination of a continuum theory that has been present on Earth for literally thousands of years, going all the way back to the Book of Exodus — the same remarks Pharaoh was making about the Jews, that he felt they were exhibiting rising numbers in power and a threat to the Egyptians. That same stuff was repeated by Hitler, and it&#8217;s being repeated by some people today.
One of the things Elon and I discussed at fair length was diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI is the basic thesis that the world is driven by power dynamics, that virtually every system is a power dynamic system and that free speech is actually just a stand-in for power. That free markets are standing for power, that those who are successful in these systems are actually perpetuaters of the system for their own exploitative power.
That is a dangerous theory. The theory that power lies behind all systems exists on all sides of the political aisle.
You see people in the West marching on behalf of members of Hamas. The only rationale for LGBT people suggesting they have solidarity with people who would literally murder them the first chance they got in the Gaza Strip is this DEI theory that there&#8217;s a system of power that must be torn to the ground. That merges with anti-Semitism, because, after all, if you&#8217;re making the case that there is a group of people with disproportionate power along racial, ethnic, and religious lines, and they are, therefore, the oppressors and exploiters, that merges well with conspiratorial theories about anti-Semitism.
This is why you see all these streams crossing with the DEI Left. This is why you see Black Lives Matter protesting for “Palestine.” This is why you see people who are socialists protesting on behalf of some of the least socially responsible people on planet Earth.
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In the modern world, we have been seeing an attempt to read strength as evil and weakness as virtue. That is a despicable morality because it&#8217;s not moral at all.
In fact, it&#8217;s directly anti-Biblical. The Bible specifically says that if you&#8217;re a judge, you are not allowed to favor either the poor or the rich. Why does the Bible suggest you&#8217;re not allowed to favor the poor when the suggestion by the Left is that you&#8217;ll never favor the poor? The answer is because virtue and wealth are not necessarily connected.
I know very virtuous people who are poor. I know very virtuous people who are rich, and I know many people who are not virtuous, who are both poor and rich. And that makes a difference when it comes to world politics. If you believe the weak are inherently virtuous, that is believing the system itself has made them weak, the system must be torn down, and the people who purport to uphold the system must be destroyed.
That&#8217;s how all of this connects to visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> girls&#8217; high school basketball game came to an abrupt halt on Thursday after players on one team verbally attacked their Jewish opponents, using anti-Semitic slurs — and playing so rough that several players were injured on the court.
The girls&#8217; varsity team from <a href="https://westchester.news12.com/hartsdale-jewish-school-says-its-girls-basketball-team-was-subjected-to-antisemitic-comments-during-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Leffell School</a> — a private Jewish school — traveled to Yonkers to play against the local public school, Roosevelt High School. But when they took to the court, players said that they encountered more hateful comments and slurs than they ever had before.
&#8220;Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, there was a somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,&#8221; senior Robin Bosworth wrote in an <a href="https://tlroar.com/uncategorized/antisemitism-at-the-girls-varsity-basketball-game/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for The Lion&#8217;s Roar. &#8220;Despite this, our team chose to let their aggressiveness fuel us going into the second half of the game, as we continued to play passionately.&#8221;
Bosworth said that the situation got much worse after halftime, however, noting that by the third quarter, some of her teammates had been injured because of how roughly Roosevelt was playing.
&#8220;Members of our team started to get injured from the other team’s physical style of play. At the end of the quarter, players on the opposing team started shouting &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us,&#8221; Bosworth continued. &#8220;Attacking a team because of their school’s religious association is never acceptable, but especially due to the current war in Israel and the world’s rise in antisemitism, this felt extremely personal to me and many members of my team. I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before.&#8221;
The players consulted with Coach John Tessitore and determined that the best course of action was to leave the game — which they did, but only after security guards ensured that they could exit the venue safely.
Leffell&#8217;s head of school, Michael Kay, said that Roosevelt High School Athletic Director Kyle Calabro had already <a href="https://www.theyonkersledger.com/sports/antisemitic-slurs-halt-roosevelt-high-school-girls-basketball-game-in-yonkers/33399/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered an apology</a>, promising &#8220;swift and appropriate&#8221; action on the matter. Roosevelt&#8217;s principal, Edward DeChent, also apologized — and was ready to work alongside The Leffell School to investigate and resolve the situation.
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&#8220;Our team was playing on the road, and during the course of the game, a small number of players on the opposing team directed hurtful, antisemitic comments toward members of our team,&#8221; Kay said in a public statement, adding that he was proud of the way both his students and staff had remained calm and removed themselves from the situation without escalating the tensions.
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A Yonkers Public School spokesman also delivered what appeared to be a watered-down version of events, saying, &#8220;It has come to our attention that a student-athlete made a statement involving &#8216;free Palestine.&#8217; This incident was promptly addressed in line with our district’s policies and values.&#8221;

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‘I Support Hamas, You F***ing Jew’: Girls Basketball Game Shut Down Over Anti-Semitic Slurs, Rough Play

'I Support Hamas, You F***ing Jew': Girls' Basketball Game Shut Down Over Anti-Semitic Slurs, Rough Play

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We’ve seen a lot of disturbing poll results over the course of the last few decades. But I’ve never personally seen a more disturbing poll result than those from the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, out over the weekend.
Now, to be sure, the poll says that the American public is basically in the realm of sanity.
Or at least, most of the American public. The olds are ok.
It’s the kids, Marty. Something has got to be done about your kids.
According to the latest <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HHP_Dec23_KeyResults.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard/Harris poll</a>, while a strong majority of every age group agree that the October 7 terror slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of another 240 was, indeed, a genocidal terror attack, some 60% of people aged 18 to 24 said that genocidal terror attack “can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.”
That’s correct: While two-thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds agree that Hamas’ terror attacks were genocidal in nature, six in 10 still said they could be justified.
It gets worse.
Every age group in America except for 18- to 24-year-olds sides with Israel against Hamas; the older you are, the less crazy you are, with those 65 and older siding 96 to 4 against Hamas. For the youngs, however, the numbers are split right down the middle: 50/50.
Just wait. It gets worse.
When asked about whether students on campus who call for the genocide of Jews should be punished for violating university rules, most Americans of all age groups say yes — and again, the older you are, the more you agree. That’s not because Americans oppose free speech. It’s because they realize every element of speech is policed on campus for microaggressions and offense-taking — so why precisely would genocidal Jew-haters be exempt?
Everyone agrees with that — except for the 18- to 24-year-olds, who believe that while such speech is “hate speech,” 53% believe students should be “told they are free to call for genocide.”
Yes, we’ve discovered the one thing fragile young people aren’t fragile about: saying the Jews should die.
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You think we’re done? It gets worse.
While a strong majority of young people — seven in 10 — agree that Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties and 58% agree that Hamas would like to commit genocide, 76% of young people think Hamas can be negotiated with to create peace, despite their stated and clear goal of Israel’s destruction. 
And here’s the kicker: 51% of 18- to 24-year-olds think “the long term answer to the Israel-Palestinian dispute” is for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.&#8221; 
That’s right. Young people admit Hamas is genocidal, uses human shields, rapes women, and commits evil atrocities regularly. And they want Israel destroyed and handed over to Hamas.
So, why do all these young people think all of these evil things?
Thankfully, the poll actually spells out the answer. On page 56 of the poll, we learn Americans were asked a simple question: “There is an ideology that white people are oppressors and nonwhite people and people of certain groups have been oppressed and as a result should be favored today at universities and for employment. Do you support or oppose this ideology?”
Pretty easy answer, right? No, of course you can’t simply assume white people are oppressors and non-white people are victims. That’s morally imbecilic. Some white people are oppressors and some are victims. Some non-white people are oppressors and some are victims.
The claim that white people are oppressors and that non-white people are the oppressed is ridiculous on the merits. After all, here is a partial list of ethnicities who earn more, on average, than white Americans do: Indian-Americans, Filipino-Americans, Taiwanese-Americans, Sri Lankan-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Malaysian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Pakistani-Americans … the list goes on.
And, as you might expect, most Americans believe this ideology is quite terrible: 65% oppose this ideology.
Not young people. They support it. Not only do they support it, but they support it 79% to 21%. Eight to two. Only a bare majority of 25- to 34-year-olds disagree with that sentiment, by the way.
Want to know why the younger generation hates Israel? Because, according to those same 18- to 24-year-olds, Jews are part of the oppressor class. Some 67% — two thirds — agree that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.”
The evil of critical race theory — or, as we now call it more innocuously, diversity, equity, and inclusion — rears its head in all the ugliest places.
We shouldn’t be all that shocked by these numbers among young people for the oppressor/oppressed, white-people-versus-everyone-else evil ideology — the Barack Obama coalition of the supposedly marginalized, which for Democrats always meant racial and sexual minorities — is numerically strongest among young people. Just 52% of 18- to 24-year-old Americans are white; similarly about 20% of Generation Z-ers, disproportionately white, say they’re LGBTQ+.
Demographics aren’t destiny, of course. Hispanic voters in Florida, for example, are voting increasingly Republican. It shouldn’t really matter what the demographic breakdown of young people is. They should stop thinking stupid crap no matter their ethnicity.
But the Left’s core oppressor/oppressed philosophy is that all that matters is your group identity. If you are a minority (but not a Jew or an Asian seeking to get into college) then you’re a victim. As the radical Left wins ideologically, it’s no surprise that group minority identity — a demographically growing piece of the American pie — is driving anti-white hatred in larger numbers.
Because young people have been indoctrinated by three generations of this garbage, it’s becoming part and parcel of the Democratic Party playbook. Right now, there’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party itself, between the moderates and the radicals.
The moderates still think the system can be changed and shaped in order to accommodate the demands of those who feel excluded, but they don’t believe the system ought to be obliterated. The Biden administration is on this team; they wave their hands at equity but don’t actually seek to implement it in the ways the radicals would most like.
The radicals think the moderates are weak and foolish, and they’re happy to use them as their tools. That’s why the New York Times is suddenly all in favor of free speech, but only when it comes to students chanting for Israel’s obliteration. According to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/us/campus-crackdowns-have-chilling-effect-on-pro-palestinian-speech.html#:~:text=Universities%20are%20under%20tremendous%20pressure,fear%20and%20curbing%20free%20expression.&amp;text=Sign%20up%20for%20the%20Israel%2DHamas%20War%20Briefing." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times</a> in a piece published over the weekend, “Universities are under tremendous pressure to stamp out antisemitism, but some say that is causing fear and curbing free expression.”
Free speech has never been much of a priority to the Times, needless to say. The same weekend the Times ran this rather long piece, former op-ed page editor James Bennet wrote <a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 16,000 word essay</a> for the Economist slamming the Times for its willingness to destroy him personally for the great sin of platforming Senator Tom Cotton, a sitting senator who advocated in 2020 for using the National Guard to put down violent riots. “The reality is that the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist,” Bennet wrote. “The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favour one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether.”
But this is the same Times suddenly concerned about free speech.
Or they’re lying—and they don’t care about free speech and they are just radical.
My hunch: They’re lying.
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What the radicals want is to use the tools of liberalism in order to push radical, illiberal evil designed to tear down the West. That is what’s happening with young people, who are now suggesting that in the name of diversity and tolerance, Israel — the only tolerant and diverse country in the Middle East — ought to be destroyed and replaced with the shariah law terrorists of Hamas. That’s why young people are preaching diversity, equity, and inclusion in the United States, when what they really mean is anti-white oppression in the name of “reparative justice.”
This is why we see piece after piece in the mainstream media discussing the generational gap among young Jews, who seem not to understand their foolishly liberal parents, who spent decades telling their kids that they’re all for a variety of viewpoints, while their kids were indoctrinated with hatred of their own parents and civilization.
Take, for example, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jewish-american-family-wrestles-over-israel-2b8019f1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a story</a> from today’s Wall Street Journal about the Wirtschafter family. Grandma Wirtschafter lived with her husband and children in Jerusalem during the 1973 war and is a Zionist. Her son, David, is a reform rabbi in Lexington, Kentucky, who calls himself a “progressive Zionist.” This is code for “a Jewish guy by birth who cares more about progressivism than Judaism.” He married another “progressive Zionist,” who herself “has studied right-wing religious movements and said she is troubled by ethnonationalism in all its forms.” Both consider themselves believers in the definition-less mush of tikkun olam — a term frequently used by Jews who don’t believe much that’s Jewish but are looking for a Hebrew phrase to hang their anti-Biblical Leftwing social justice politics upon. 
So, how did they raise their kids? According to the Journal, “They imparted [that Jewish concept of pursuing social justice] to their two children and encouraged them to think critically and speak up.” Their daughter and son, Emanuelle and Zachariah, now hate Israel and wish it to be disestablished as a Jewish state. Emanuelle said she wouldn’t attend post-October 7 events that featured Israeli flags.
That problem isn’t unique to Jews. It’s a generational problem across the West. Liberal parents breed radical children who use the cowardice of their parents as their leverage to tear down the entire system. Meanwhile, their milksop parents sit there and nod their heads weakly as they explain, as the Wirtschafters do, “I don’t agree with Emanuelle on every political issue, including aspects of this current crisis. But I’m tremendously proud of her for standing up for what she believes in.”
But what if she believes white people and Jews are the oppressors? What then? Still proud?
Radicals have been playing this game since the 1960s. Quietly, they’ve been winning. And they’ll continue winning until disaffected liberals realize they’ve been played for suckers and stop mouthing platitudes about the joy of tolerance and diversity as their own children prepare their defenestration in the name of weaponized social justice.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> nixed a webpage that boasted a number of &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for graduates of a variety of identities.
Journalist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported the delegation on Thursday at a time when Harvard and other universities face intense scrutiny over acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a> reported on campuses around the country as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
&#8220;Harvard provided racially segregated &#8216;affinity group&#8217; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year,&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, along with screenshots, adding later, &#8220;The university has now deleted this page from its website.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Harvard provided racially segregated &quot;affinity group&quot; celebrations at its commencement event earlier this year. Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations.
The university has now deleted this page from its website. <a href="https://t.co/ZFLF2exvhL">pic.twitter.com/ZFLF2exvhL</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1735372866118664616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Items that made up the list for May included &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for &#8220;LGBTQ+ Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Arab Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Indigenous Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Graduates with Disabilities,&#8221; &#8220;Latinx Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;Black Graduates,&#8221; and &#8220;Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi-American Graduates.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvards-affinity-graduation-page-that-excluded-jews-has-been-deleted/24514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by Campus Reform</a>, the URL for the deleted page now redirects to a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/about/diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Diversity and Inclusion”</a> page on the Harvard website, but an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived version</a> shows what it looked like before the change. It&#8217;s unclear when the page was removed, but the outlet noted that it appears to have been an &#8220;evergreen&#8221; page for &#8220;affinity&#8221; events in each graduation cycle.
The Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230323182400/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a> shows the page was visible at least as far back as 2022, and a &#8220;Frequently Asked Questions&#8221; section indicated that the celebrations <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023641/https://edib.harvard.edu/affinity-graduations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been going on</a> for several years.
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Although Rufo claimed in his X post that &#8220;Whites and Jews were the only groups not provided with celebrations,&#8221; Harvard University <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/commencement/affinity-graduation-celebrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221;</a> as &#8220;student-led, staff-supported events that recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of graduates from marginalized and underrepresented communities.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Harvard seeking comment on the deleted webpage.
Harvard University&#8217;s president, Claudine Gay, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-testimony-of-university-presidents-on-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced blowback</a> after she said during a recent congressional hearing that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-congressional-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;context&#8221;</a> dictated whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated her school&#8217;s policies on bullying and harassment.
But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-highest-governing-body-unanimously-reaffirms-support-for-president-after-troubling-congressional-testimony-plagiarism-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> has stuck behind its president, and Gay released a statement, posted to X by the university, that <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1732447178491109411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.&#8221;

Harvard Scrubs Webpage For Identity Group Celebrations

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Three alleged terrorists were <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-14/denmark-arrests-several-people-over-suspected-terrorism-planning?embedded-checkout=true">arrested</a> Thursday in Denmark on suspicion of planning an attack directed at Jews, while another suspect was arrested in the Netherlands.
<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to the Israeli prime minister’s office, Israel’s Mossad foiled the attack that they said was planned against Jews in Denmark.
The prime minister’s office said the terrorists were “acting on behalf of the terrorist organization Hamas&#8221; and that Mossad had &#8220;foiled an attack aimed at killing innocent citizens on European soil,” according to Israel National News, adding, “In recent years, and even more so after the murderous attack on October 7, Hamas strives to expand its operational capabilities around the world and in Europe in particular in order to realize its ambitions to strike Israeli, Jewish, and Western targets at any cost.”
“We work together with our partners in the intelligence and security bodies in Denmark on the successful countermeasures that culminated today with the carrying out of the arrests and the extensive exposure of Hamas infrastructure on European soil, and we see great importance in promoting the legal proceedings against those involved,” the statement continued. “The terrorist organization Hamas works indiscriminately and in every way it can to expand its deadly activities to Europe, thus posing a threat to the internal security of these countries. The Mossad and the Shin Bet will continue to operate with their partners in Israel and around the world in order to thwart the intentions of Hamas and eliminate its capabilities.”
“This is extremely serious,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/copenhagen-police-danish-intelligence-make-arrests-suspicion-preparations-attack-2023-12-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in Brussels. “It is, of course — in relation to Israel and Gaza — completely unacceptable for someone to bring a conflict elsewhere in the world into Danish society. For a number of years now, we have seen that there are people living in Denmark who do not wish us well. Who are against our freedom and who are against Danish society, with all that it entails.”
Earlier this week, the Netherlands announced raising their terrorism threat level to “substantial.”
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In 2015, a 22-year-old Danish Muslim gunman killed one person and injured three police officers at a free speech debate in a café; he also murdered a Jewish man and wounded two police officers near Copenhagen’s main synagogue. The gunman had <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/europe/denmark-shootings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sworn allegiance</a> to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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